Rebuild the Lab for Robots: Manual Benches Are the Bottleneck in Bioengineering
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-10-12
- jrkelly: after 20 years of trying alternatives, PhDs manually working at lab benches remain the rate limiter for biological engineering — the manual bench has to go.
- curiouswavefn adds that labs must be reimagined from the ground up for robots: ultra-fast liquid dispensing already uses non-humanoid Echo dispensers rather than human-like robot arms, for good reason.
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